One of the options available to you when you're creating selections in Photoshop is…to feather that selection. You can perform the feathering as part of…the process of creating the selection or you can apply the feathering after the…selection has already been created. But my recommendation is to not feather selections.…Now I'll be the first to tell that when it comes to utilizing that selection you…always or at least almost always want a feathered result and yet I never feather selections.…Well, okay, I feather selections only when I'm showing someone why I'd recommend not…feathering selections. So let's feather some selections so that…you can see why I recommend not feathering those selections.…

Instead essentially saving that step for later in your work flow.…I'll start off by creating a selection of the sky here.…I'm not going to worry that it's a perfect selection.…I just want to be able to illustrate the concept here.…Now this image, of course, is rather subtle.…But we're not going to be subtle at all when it comes to applying a targeted…

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6/25/2013

Learn how to use selections and layer masks in Photoshop to create composite images and apply targeted adjustments. After covering the key concepts behind selections and exploring Photoshop's selection tools, Tim Grey delves into a variety of advanced techniques that will help you make accurate selections, create seamless composite images, and apply adjustments that do exactly what you want them to do.